Owned and operated by network parent Weigel Broadcasting , the station maintains studios on West South Street in St. George , and its transmitter is located on Cedar Mountain , southeast of Cedar City. After several extensions and replacements of expired permits, and transfer of the permit to Liberty Broadcasting Company, the station first signed on the air on April 23, , operating as an independent station ; it was licensed by the Federal Communications Commission on June 21, Liberty Broadcasting filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on December 17, , but the filing had to be converted to Chapter 7 bankruptcy on June 22, George, filed an application to acquire the station out of bankruptcy and on November 12, changed its call letters to KSGI-TV to match the radio stations.
The acquisition was approved by the FCC and consummated on February 1, Seagull Communications returned the station to air the same day, again as an independent station. Almost immediately, the new owners applied to the FCC to build booster stations serving St. George, Utah, and Beaver Dam, Arizona โ Mesquite, Nevada , communities cut off from the signal due to the mountainous terrain of those areas.
The FCC granted the construction permit for the St. That station was never built, but the construction permit remained in the FCC database until On February 16, , the station changed its call letters to KXIV, in anticipation of its DTV channel assignment on UHF channel 14, but the FCC adopted the virtual channel standard, whereby digital stations would continue to identify by their analog channel assignment, and on May 15, , the station again changed call letters, this time to KCSG.
George-based partnership of Daniel Matheson and local auto dealer Stephen Wade. In , the company founded the region's first television news department for the station. Before, the only local news program available to residents of Cedar City and St.
George came from Salt Lake City area stations. The station made news in September , when it began offering its news programs in Spanish , as well as in English, attempting to serve the region's growing Hispanic population.
